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2. synonyms - Chalkboard and Blackboard Difference? - English...

   english.stackexchange.com/questions/123500

   A blackboard is:-a sheet of smooth, hard material, especially dark slate, used in schools, lecture rooms, etc., for writing or drawing on with chalk. whereas a chalkboard is:-A smooth hard panel, usually green or black, for writing on with chalk; a blackboard. A greenboard is:-a green chalkboard or blackboard.

3. What is the sound of nails scratching a chalkboard called?

   english.stackexchange.com/questions/52058

   Writers tend to use the phrase nails on a chalkboard to describe the sound: “The music of veteran pop singer Cliff Richard apparently is like nails on a chalkboard to hooligans.” [CNN] Apparently, nobody has been able to capture the sound's singular power to excruciate in an onomatopoeia.

4. single word requests - Do you say 'white blackboard'? - English...

   english.stackexchange.com/questions/31050

   "Blackboard," has a nice archaic ring to it. I started in elementary school with blackboards, then they turned green, and we still called them blackboards. Now they're white, but to me it will stay a blackboard no matter what color it is. "White blackboard," I've never heard used, except by sarcastic teens mocking my age.

5. nouns - "Leader board" vs. "leaderboard" - English Language &...

   english.stackexchange.com/questions/97140/leader-board-vs-leaderboard

   It's really no different than blackboard. Inevitably, "leaderboard" will become increasingly more formally ...

6. word choice - Is there a subtle difference between "somebody" and...

   english.stackexchange.com/questions/1749

   There is little or no difference between the -one and -body variants.. However, there is a major difference between somebody and anybody--anybody is one of the "negative valency" words in English, which is required when the main verb of the sentence is negated.

7. pronunciation - Why is "cupboard" pronounced with a silent "p ...

   english.stackexchange.com/questions/196668

   There are sev­er­al fac­tors in play here. Dif­fi­cult con­so­nant clus­ters are of­ten re­duced in rapid speech or over time; think of friend­ship, spend­thrift, twelfth, months.